O/S Daily Wednesday 8 April 2020

-taff

Morning all! Not so very beautiful sunny today, in fact, all grey. But, it is dry, it is slightly windy so should I want to avail myself of outdoor drying, this is perfectly possible. Im not though, I don't fancy pegging out today. My hands are a bit ropey after squishing lots of clay yesteray to find stones, weeds and roots. However, the back of the greenhouse is now almost totally clear and I can even walk down it now. I fished out half a buvkets worth of fir tree blow offs too from the guttering on the greenhouse. The tree needs to go. It's also pushing out the concrete fence posts so the fence panel is being held on by string.

I just heard the post flap go...Looks like I've got a nice letter saying stay in for 12 weeks. I'd better slow down on the garden then, looks like I'm going to need it a lot more no more shopping for me then. And take the battery out of the car.

So todays delights involve more garden [I'm going to have the tidiest garden in the world now] and some DIY gubbins.

Just managed to catch the binmen to give them a ox of chocolates. I've been meaning to do that since Christmas, Just have never caught them before.

Nels, keep up the good excercise work and please don't let your mother bug you, you can't change her, only your reaction. We need you good and strong for later summer activities...Ruby, uh oh,hope your ankle gets well soon! Camelot, uh oh another PW fanatic...they're just so much fun aren't they? Won't take you lon to do the block paving with one of those....:) bella, commiserations for your daughter, the time will fly by hopefully. Gers, how is your hip now? And hope you enjoy the mean streets...I did laugh at that. And you might as well shout at camelot, no one is going to get too close to you anyway to say anything and if they do, pretend you can't hear them. Nanny, well done for digging to australia! Shame about the fresh air not making you sleep. God luck with todays quest. Cranky, also good luck to the gardening and my condolences. We lost my auntie last night [not to Covid] but still a shock.  Hope everyone reading along is good, or OK, or passable....Wobbly Wednesday....

CRANKY40

My condolences to you too Taff and a big hug. It's made harder by the no funeral thing as well I think, all they can do is stay indoors. It was so hard to find something to send to my friend (just a little something) to say that I'm thinking of her but I found a tea, cookies, cake and jam hamper eventually. 

snoozer

Hi everyone,
We just got a delivery of the Govt provisions box. We don't need it so we called a local group to pick it up and take it to a food bank. It had a couple of toilet rolls in it, spaghetti, pasta sauce, soup, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, a can of tuna, a loaf, a couple of long life milks, potatoes, oranges, pears and tinned peas. Oh and a box of choc weetos, tea bags, coffee and a packet of fig rolls. It says it should last a week, presumably just for one because Steve is the only vulnerable one in the house. I think I'd struggle to make evening meals with it if that was all I had to rely on. The sauce was a pasta bake so you could use that with the spaghetti and make four portions, maybe including the tuna on a couple of days for variety.  Apart from that I suppose you could have mash with baked beans for the remaining 3 nights and half a tin of soup and bread for lunch with weetos for breakfast. I don't know what I'd do with the tinned marrowfat peas with that little lot, maybe some of you have better ideas than me. I'm just so grateful that we don't have to rely on it and I'm sure that it's a help to those who are really stuck.

Chris wasn't feeling so good last night but I think his hayfever has been kicking in again and complicating matters, he's also like his dad and won't rest saying he's fine. I told him that was what Boris did and look what happened to him. I'm sure Chris will be fine though and Crystal is feeling back to normal thankfully.

Poor Laura had a bad day with a crying baby yesterday, it's so hard when you can't get a break by going to a baby group, or just for a wander round the shops or something. Brian started his job on Monday and has been very busy  so hasn't been able to help very much either.

I finished the top of my applique quilt, it's a monster so quilting it is going to be hard, I shall keep it very simple I think. I'm pleased with it though, it's come out very well.

Stay safe everyone.

Nelski

Grief Taff at your rate of work your garden will be ready to be listed on the RHS website soon. Best get it visitor ready:) It is OK to rest sometimes you know  Loved your thought for the binmen....Ive just bought a pack of thank you cards to give to anyone doing amazing work in my world despite risks to themselves. Im thinking the couple of guys who deliver my vittles on a Sat morning, bin men and my cute postie....heroes to me 

monnagran

Morning all,  it is still. Just.

All excitement here as I was suddenly offered a lift to T*sc*s.  As I've not been shopping for 3 weeks I decided to go.  I must say that they had everything well organised, and although I blotted my copybook by going the wrong way down a couple of aisles, I wasn't the only one.   At least I can live for another 3 weeks without shopping.

Bella, your poor DD!  She must feel as though her wedding is doomed.  Such a shame that something she must have probably dreamed about since she was a little girl, turned out to be a complete nightmare.  I pray that when it finally happens it will be wonderful for her.

RR, you seem to be rushing about all over the place.  Take it easy.  I think you should be conserving your strength, or something.

Cranky, so sorry to hear about your friend losing her SIL.  This is not the time for bad news, of any description.

Nan, thinking of you and your DH this morning.  Hope all went well.

taff, if you need any help removing your fir tree, I have just the person.
My next door neighbour is very handy with a ladder.  I first noticed her up a ladder clearing out her gutters.  Last week I saw the ladder out again.  Apparently some pigeons had the temerity to build a nest in a tree in her garden and had compounded their sin by messing on her garden ornaments.  So she did what any red-blooded English woman would do in the circumstances.  She cut the tree down.
Peggy is knee-high to a grasshopper and 90 years old.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY 

If you pay attention you'll  notice that people don't listen......they just wait for their turn to talk.
 

dp1

Hi everyone
Its another lovely sunny day here. Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon in the garden, cutting the grass and having a general tidy. There's still more to do so will carry on this afternoon.

I had to walk into town this morning as I had a prescription to collect. My tongue is still really painful after having shingles in my mouth in February so I did an online consultation at the doctors and they've given me another prescription for a mouth spray. Hopefully it will help.

Still no news on grand daughter's operation...they've been in hospital 10 days now so DD is understandably very fed up. Little one is very happy and full of life and keeping the doctors and nurses entertained!
Well I'm going to move and do something useful. Take care everyone

-taff

Thanks Cranky and thanks for the idea, it's a good one, I hadn't thought of that. I'll send my cousin something online. Me and my sister have been on the phone this morning trying to help to sort things for her and letting people know kind of thing. Apparently they'll be allowed ten people at the funeral, they're in Wales so the rules are different there. I still can't go though now. I expect both of them are also going to get a gov letter soon too, they've both got asthma, I don't know whether to hope it gets there before or after the funeral.

Nels, I caught the posite in January to give him some chocolates, he was quite pleased too. The binmen were also pleased, said that it would keep them going I'm a bit random with thanking people and card type things, I remember, then I forget...I expect your recipients will be touched

Monna, send her over..I had a laugh reading that, especially about the pigeons. I can't get it down myself, it's in a neighbours garden who has refused to chop it the three times we've asked for various reasons, also refused the 5  neighbours surrounding her. It's a massive thing with nine trunks, taller than the houses and almost as wide as two gardens. I think it's just down to cost really, but if we strike lucky with lottery wins [ must remember to buy a ticket] we'll offer to pay. We have chopped the overhanging branches we can reach and amassed a nice pile for a future firepit. Good to see you got your shopping in the end even if you did a hop skip and a jump around the aisles

Snoozer, I hope Chris listens to you....

|Right, back to the fray.....